Month: March 2016

Easter Monday in Poland as a holiday and is popular regard to as Śmigus-Dyngus (shming-oos-ding-oos) or Lany Poniedzialek (Wet Monday) in Poland. This is a wonderful day of fun. According to tradition, it is a day when boys tried to drench girls with buckets of water. The more a girl is sprayed with water, the […]

Few place-names have been used to refer to more distinct places than “Guinea.” Four countries now share the name, three in western Africa (Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, and Equatorial Guinea), and one in the western Pacific (Papua New Guinea). Historically, several other places were referenced by the name as well. The Wikipedia disambiguation page lists thirteen “countries” […]

Signing the death warrant of a childhood friend is not exactly a position anyone would like to be especially when that friend had become more like a blood brother but this is what Major General Ibrahim Babangida did to his childhood friend Major General Mamman Jiya Vatsa exactly 30 years ago this March. Major General […]

Robyn Rihanna Fenty was born on February 20, 1988, in Saint Michael, Barbados. Her mother, Monica Braithwaite, is a retired accountant of Afro-Guyanese background, and her father, Ronald Fenty, is a warehouse supervisor of Barbadian and Irish descent. Rihanna has two brothers, Rorrey and Rajad Fenty, and two half-sisters and a half-brother from her father’s […]

The Ooni of Ife, HRH Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi has appealed to all Nigerians, irrespective of religious, ethnic and political differences to work diligently towards sustaining Nigeria’s hard-won unity. The highly respected monarch told newsmen in Sokoto on Saturday that Nigerians should set aside their diverse backgrounds to work toward in ensuring that the country remains […]

Exactly 100 years ago on March 20, 1916, Ota Benga returned home, but not to his homeland, when he died in Virginia after having been kidnapped from Africa and put on display in a monkey cage at an American zoo. During the slaughter of his village while he was away hunting, Belgian soldiers and mercenaries […]

#Laquintinie – Cameroonians on Sunday took to the streets to protest the death of a pregnant woman whose belly was slit open by her niece in front of a hospital in Douala to save the lives of her twin babies after being left unattended to. According to Cameroonian journalist Yanick Fonki Ndaley, at least one […]

The Yoruba history has so many tales of war generals, war lords, priests, kings and noble women who fought for the peace of the land, in the 100 years war period that once ravaged the land, but the emergence of a first class warrior and diplomat, in the person of Ogedengbe of Ilesha, is one […]

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